Sky NZ Olympics 2024 screenbugs
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Bob Ballard is an experienced British commentator.
Ballard has commentated on sporting events for more than four decades, covering a range of sports including swimming, diving, ice hockey, tennis, basketball, water polo, football, and cricket, according to his website.
He also runs his own broadcast media company, RHB Productions, out of London and works as a presenter for BBC Local Radio.
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The 34.5 million viewer average over the first three days is up 79 percent (from 19.3 million viewers) over the same period for the last Summer Olympics three years ago in Tokyo.
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Sky TV NZ mistakens by interviewing the wrong Kiwi athlete, instead, speaking to a Israeli.
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@WestKnight have you noticed the end credits of Hong Kong broadcasters covering the Paris Olympics, saying they own the copyright or the IOC owns the copyright?
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Do we have an English language and clear concise snapshot of host nation France’s TV ratings so far, broadcast but also any bvod and svod, are they seeing London 2012 BBC or Sydney 2000 Seven equivalents?
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France Télévisions recorded an average audience of 23.2 million viewers for the ceremony on its France 2 linear channel, as well as a viewership peak of 25.2 million
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Thank you. So 23m vs a population of 68m, incredible numbers or disappointing? Also a bigger country than England.
Sydney 2000 OC on Seven: 6.5m (reported 8.8m for Cathy Freeman’s famous victory), with an Australian population of 19m.
Important to note that these numbers don’t appear to factor in Eurosport viewers (who are the actual rights holders).
There is also a decent level of apathy towards the event in France - Reuters reported earlier this year:
Nearly 40% of French people are indifferent about the Olympics, while 37% have a negative view of the Games, according to a May 31 Ifop poll. Less than a quarter of respondents were enthusiastic about the event, the survey showed, even if past Olympics suggest the mood will lift once the Games begin on July 26.
As we discussed during the 2023 WWC, these numbers tend to under-report when you talk about really large audiences too, they rarely factor in people watching via alternate means (at non-home locations, live sites etc)
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Also wouldn’t account for people who are actually at the ceremony, along with those watching at live sites, bars, parties, etc.
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Similar situation in TDM Macau, where their sports channel seems to be using coverage from CCTV-16 to some level:
I didn’t stay till the end for each HK broadcasters’ coverage, but AFAIK Hoy IBC cuts to their usual black production slate (with a copyright of i-Cable Hoy Ltd.) when they need to go to the news. Others may play the OBS intro at the end once more to signal the end of the coverage IIRC.
[Update] TVB Plus hands over to Pearl coverage by showing a rolling credits list then a TVB copyright notice, underneath match footages.
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TV ratings for NBC are up on previous Olympics. Milan-Cortina should get a boost with NHL players participating.
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Sorry for the late reply, we are still savoring our Double Gold win courtesy of Carlos Yulo, who did phenomenally well in the Floor and Vault exercises.
Needless to say, the MVP group was able to capitalize on it by putting Yulo’s events live and free on its main FTA channel, TV5 and secondary FTA network RPTV, in primetime, thereby avoiding the blunder they did three years ago when Hidilyn Diaz’ gold medal lift was aired live on Pay per view and had an FTA delayed telecast afterward.
So here was the post-Medal event yesterday with the live interview of Yulo at the mixed zone. Regrettably, Cignal TV only used a mobile phone to cover the interview live, not using an DNG team to at least make it broadcast quality.
The mixed zone interview was simulcast on One Sports, One Sports+, One News, One PH, TV5 and RPTV.
And here is the banner page of The Manila Times celebrating Yulo’s win (I also work at The Manila Times as a reporter 
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